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US
/ˈvæst/
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[ UK /vˈɑːst/ ]
[ UK /vˈɑːst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
a huge wave
the vast reaches of outer space
the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
huge country estates
at vast (or immense) expense
the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization
immense numbers of birds
huge popular demand for higher education
huge government spending
How To Use vast In A Sentence
- The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
- Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
- Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
- I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K.
- The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
- The Communists vastly exaggerated their own Resistance role in order to attract postwar political support.
- Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy. The Titan
- Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
- Beneath the third was a vast treasure which the emperor then used for charitable purposes.
- Although, reading about his devastating sex appeal might have also helped.
